Mary (Barret) Thayer (abt. 1635 - 1657)

Born about 1635 in England [uncertain]

Wife of Shadrach Thayer — married 1 Jan 1655 in Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 2 Apr 1657 at about age 22 in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Mary (Barret) Thayer immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Mary Barrett was born probably in England about 1635; the exact date is unknown. She was presumably the daughter of Thomas Barrett and Margaret Barrett.^[1]

Her parents had settled in Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony where they remained several years; her father was made a freeman there in 1645.^[1]

On January 1, 1654/5 at Braintree, Mary married Sidrath (or Shadrach) Thayer.^[2][1]The ceremony was performed by Capt. Torrey.^[3]Shadrach was born in May of 1629; the son of Thomas and Margery (Wheeler) Thayer; he died October 19, 1678.^[4]

Mary (Barrett) Thayer died in Braintree on 2 mo. 2. 1657^[5] which is interpreted as April 2, 1657.^[4][1]Her husband Shadrach married (2nd) to Deliverance Priest and had seven more children. He died October 19, 1678 and his widow, Deliverance, died January 17, 1723.^[6]

Children:^[6]

1. Rachell b 9 mo. 9th 1655.^[7]d. (23) (9) 1656^[5]
2. Tryall, daughter, b. 12th mo, 7th, 1656.^[7]

Research Notes

• Mary Barrett's father is not the same person as the 16 year old boy by the name of Thomas Barrett who immigrated on the Increase on April 15, 1635.^[8][9][10]
• Evidently Joseph Hartwell Barrett was in error when he wrote that both of Mary and Shadrach's children died young^[1]as Tryall married John Burge^{[11] [12]} and had children, dying at Chelmsford on 1 Jan 1737.^[13]

• Marriage record Marriage record for Mary Barrett and Shadrach Thayer: Braintree records say 11 mo 1. From other Braintree marriage records it is clear that the month is given first, followed by the day. In this case, the marriage occurred on the first day of the 11th month, which is 1 of January in the Julian (old calendar).^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Joseph Hartwell Barrett. "Thomas Barrett of Braintree, William Barrett of Cambridge." Vol. 42, p. 258.subscription needed
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Records of the Town of Braintree 1640-1793," Samuel A. Bates, ed., 1886, p 716: "Sidrick Thayer, and Mary Barrett were married the 11th mo. 1, 1654, by Capt. Tory of Waymoth."
3. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) "Early Records of Boston" Vol. 12, p. 347.subscription needed
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Snow, Nora Emma. The Snow-Estes Ancestry (Hillburn, N.Y., 1939) Vol. 2, p. 219 here for 1 click:[1]
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Braintree Records. Vol. 37 p. 167.subscription needed
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) "Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on Record in the County of Suffolk, Mass." William B. Trask. Vol. 13, p. 336 (footnotes).subscription needed
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Braintree Records, Vol. 36, p. 300.subscription needed
8. ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, A-B. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 1, A-B, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. p. 167.[2] subscription needed]
9. ↑ The Great Migration Directory, Immigrants to New England 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium." Robet Charles Anderson. New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015) p. 20.
10. ↑ John Camden Hotten. "The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; emigrants, religious Exiles; political rebels..." London: Hotten (1874). p. 66.[https://archive.org/details/originallistsofp00hottuoft/page/66/mode/1up
11. ↑ "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHL7-PWR : accessed 11 April 2015), John Burge and Triall Thare, 19 Sep 1677; citing reference p 181; FHL microfilm 868,435.
12. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-Y58K : 13 July 2016), John Burge and Triall Thare, 19 Sep 1677; citing Marriage, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 868,435.
13. ↑ "Massachusetts, Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCMY-TWB : accessed 11 April 2015), Tryal Burge, 01 Jan 1737; citing Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, reference Roll 4966 P55 R15; FHL microfilm 868,434.

see also:

• Barrett, William. Genealogy of Some of The Descendants of Thomas Barrett, Sen., of Braintree, Mass., 1635 (D. Ramaley & Son, Saint Paul, Minn., 1888) Page 10
• Barnett, Madalene R. The Descendants of Moses and Mary (Dow) Barrett (Waco, Texas, 1982)
• "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NN57-H2R : 10 December 2014), Charles Dunleavy and Mary Barrett, 18 Jul 1854; citing Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, reference pg 65; FHL microfilm 2,046,623.
• Thayer, Bezaleel. Memorial of the Thayer Name (R.J. Oliphant, Oswego, 1874); Page 57
• Warner, Frederick C., The ancestry of Samuel, Freda and John Warner, published 1949. Reference page 662-3